When Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S4 to the world, it promised that it would be a truly global phone by supporting more bands than any other LTE-enabled device. It is a bold promise that Samsung won’t be able to back up in the USA.

How do you choose between the iPhone 5 and Galaxy S4? On the one hand, the iPhone 5 is an entirely known entity that just works. You might not be getting the most exciting or feature-rich smartphone, but at least you know exactly what you’re getting. Samsung’s Galaxy S4, on the other hand, is world’s apart from the iPhone 5: It’s huge, and massively powerful, and it has a ton of features that might be awesome or gimmicky, depending on your point of view.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 is an omnipotent smartphone — an omniphone — that gives us our first real glimpse at a future where all our computing needs are satisfied by the same device. Be it productivity, content consumption, or playing games, it’s now clear that the future of personal computing is consolidation in a single portable device; most likely a smartphone.

Samsung has officially unveiled the Galaxy S4 — but looking at its hardware and software specs, I wonder if the Korean chaebol should’ve instead taken a leaf out of Apple’s playbook and called it the Galaxy S3S.

In the lead up to the official launch of the Galaxy S4 tonight in New York, a series of leaks from China mean that we now know almost all of the hardware and software specs of Samsung’s new superphone. The Galaxy S4 will have a 4.99-inch display, an eight-core Exynos Octa 5410 SoC, and interesting new software features such as SmartPause and floating touch. We also know the dimensions and weight, and the battery size.

Thanks to our friends in China, who seem to have cracked open a shipment of Samsung’s Galaxy S4s before everyone else, we can now reveal two of the S4’s key new features: Floating touch and SmartPause.

Ahead of its official release later today, the first high-resolution photos of the Samsung Galaxy S4 have leaked from China. The images not only confirm the rumored hardware specs (4.99-inch 1920×1080 display, 8-core Exynos Octa SoC), but they also confirm the Galaxy S4’s dimensions (it’s super-thin!), the battery size, and introduce some interesting new software features — such as S Pen… but without the pen.